Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on not being in the latter stages in Europe and the motivation they have to get back there as they prepare to face Everton
Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK
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00:00As someone who's been involved all your career basically as a coach in the back end of the
00:05Champions League, what has it been like this week, previous weeks, when the Champions League
00:11matches are happening and they're getting to the really important stage and you're not involved?
00:16Do you just, do you watch them and watch them as a, I don't know, as an observer, as a manager,
00:22or do you just think it doesn't involve me so I'm not paying any attention?
00:26No, enjoy the games, have been really, really nice games, so choosing Villa Park was a fantastic
00:34game, I think in Dortmund as well against Barcelona, I've been in good games, enjoy it, miss it
00:41of course, but accept, so I'm a person like, I don't complain much what the life gives it
00:48to me in good moments, especially not in bad moments because it's a sport, sometimes you
00:53don't perform well, you don't deserve to be, it's just, okay, hopefully next season we
00:59can be there and, you know, deal with the big, big clubs in Europe, I can challenge them
01:04better than we have done this season, challenge them what we have done in the last seven years,
01:09like every season we were there, even when we were out always we competed really well,
01:14so yeah, I take it in that way.
01:16Does it make you, I mean, this is a big week for City, Everton away, it's a tough game,
01:22Villa, it's a tough game and then the semi-final, does it give you any extra motivation or do
01:27you not need any more motivation to get back into that competition and win something?
01:33Of course it is, of course it is motivation, yeah, you're right, of course it is, so I think
01:39that it's not a bad thing to fight for to qualify for the Champions League, could be in a very,
01:50very lower position in the Premier League if you have done a few good things that you have done in
01:56this four or five months, people say now we are four now, it could be 11 or 12 or 13 or 14,
02:04I don't have any doubts of that, so I take it like, okay, I have not been good, but it's in our hands
02:11and of course Woodison Park and Villa, it's massively important because it's just six games,
02:16you don't have much time, I know that our qualification pass already had, you know,
02:22we know the games we have here and take one or two games away and we have a first opportunity tomorrow in Liverpool.